The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian
“The Commission was a newly established body and this was the first time that a County Council had seriously questioned one of its job recommendations.
The LAC was a central agency that had been set up to provide independent assessment of recruitment to local bodies and thereby combat favouritism, nepotism and political patronage. Candidates were to be judged on their professional merits, rather than their connections. There had been a general feeling, ‘amounting almost to a tradition, that ...local councils could not be trusted to fill jobs fairly.’1 Canvassing and dishonesty were widely suspected. Arthur Griffith had long planned for a centralised recruitment system for both public and civil service jobs. This had been the policy of the Sinn Féin Party from which Cumann na nGaedheal had emerged.
There are many examples from the early years of the twentieth century, of local bodies selecting patently unsuitable candidates ahead of better-qualified applicants.MoreLess
The LAC was a central agency that had been set up to provide independent assessment of recruitment to local bodies and thereby combat favouritism, nepotism and political patronage. Candidates were to be judged on their professional merits, rather than their connections. There had been a general feeling, ‘amounting almost to a tradition, that ...local councils could not be trusted to fill jobs fairly.’1 Canvassing and dishonesty were widely suspected. Arthur Griffith had long planned for a centralised recruitment system for both public and civil service jobs. This had been the policy of the Sinn Féin Party from which Cumann na nGaedheal had emerged.
There are many examples from the early years of the twentieth century, of local bodies selecting patently unsuitable candidates ahead of better-qualified applicants.MoreLess
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